Amanda Carr

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Surely that’s a Sean Bean special file

Really good! 👏🏻🤣

Early trigger of diabetic eye disease identified A team led by UCL scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight l...

A team led by @ucleye.bsky.social scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight loss among working-age adults.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

So amazing to see our work on the cover of Science Translational Medicine!!

A study led by @giuliaderossi.bsky.social has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness. The study, funded by @diabetesuk.bsky.social is published today and featured on the cover of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

Lego lab with PCR machines, microscopes, cell culture and Bunsen and Beaker

I’m pleased to announce that my Lego lab will officially be moving to this building should it be funded

As a fully qualified LEGO nerd, this would be my dream Christmas present 🤞🏻

Emily, a macular society funded phd student, working with cells

And so it begins! 🎓 Emily’s PhD journey into shedding light on the fibrotic response in wet AMD. Huge thanks to @macularsociety.org for supporting this talented young scientist, and to @amandajcarr.bsky.social for co-supervising! 👏✨

Can (and should) we cure blindness? Recent years have seen incredible advances in eyesight restoration. But should we approach blindness as something that needs to be 'cured'? Comedian Tom Skelton, who started losing his sight at 21, ex...

This #WorldSightDay we share a short film for BBC ideas, in partnership with UKRI, featuring work by 3 @ucleye.bsky.social researchers: PhD student Zaynab Butt, Dr @amandajcarr.bsky.social and pioneering eye researcher Professor Pete Coffey who passed away in June 2025. www.bbc.co.uk/videos/c4gd5...

This completely ruins my old lecture joke “what’s does Jennifer Lopez know about regeneration?” -She used to know a little but she Axolotl 🤓

Blocking apoptosis promotes survival and alters developmental dynamics of human retinal ganglion cells in retinal organoids Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the projection neurons that transmit visual information from the retina to the brain. In many species, a substantial proportion of RGCs are eliminated by programmed c...

Check this paper from @simonomisz.bsky.social in our lab!
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Human retinas/organoids go through 2 apoptotic waves. Organoids also have a necrotic wave. Blocking apoptosis promotes RGC survival to day 200 (usually die!). Apoptosis promotes normal neurogenesis/maturation.

So exhausting..

Gene therapy appears to slow Huntington’s disease progression A global clinical trial for a new Huntington’s disease treatment has posted positive results today, announced by trial sponsor uniQure and UCL scientists.

Incredible results from UCL Huntingtons trial show slowing of disease and reduction of NFL after 3 years

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

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Brain fog: A temporary software glitch in the human operating system where your brain forgets how to brain….

Incredible photo

Treatment for cause of sight loss approved following UCL research A novel treatment for Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON), a rare genetic disease that can lead to sudden loss of vision, has been approved for NHS patients following a successful clinical…

🎉 Groundbreaking sight loss treatment for Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy now available on NHS England following a successful clinical trial co-led by @ucleye.bsky.social and Moorfields researcher.

Excited to be at the first UK Stem Cell Network in I don’t know how many years, it’s great to see the field get together again. Thanks to Zoe Hewitt from @regenctc.bsky.social for all your efforts getting this going again ❤️

Followed all the instructions and NOT OK 🥺

Finally making it through to the @radiohead.wastehq.social queue feels a lot like this….

I love how Hiroshi Suzuki is embracing British life, even down to our quirky 90s Boddington ads 🥰

Still hoping with three hours left mine is on its way 🤞🏻

Furious American knitters cut off from EU yarn stores sit around fuming surrounded by sharp objects

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Ten tiny stone gravestones - each shaped like a small urn lying on its side- surrounding one adult gravestone, pictured on a sunny afternoon.

The churchyard of Cooling, in Kent, England. Those ten tiny gravestones were made famous by Dickens. They are a nice picture of childhood in a world without vaccines.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

That’s no way to talk about the new Institute of Ophthalmology 🤣

How do you access the dominos at the bottom of the screen? I could just see the outline of them but there was no way to get to them, couldn’t scroll or tap them….